Editing Cimbri (section)

==Name==
The origin of the name ''Cimbri'' is unknown. One etymology<ref>Vasmer, ''Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch'', 1958, vol. 3, p. 62; Z. Gołąb, "About the connection between kinship terms and some ethnica in Slavic", ''International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics'' 25-26 (1982) 166-7.</ref> is {{langx|ine-x-proto|*tḱim-ro-||inhabitant}}, from {{lang|ine-x-proto|tḱoi-m-}} "home" (English ''home''), itself a derivation from {{lang|ine-x-proto|[[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tḱey-|tḱei-]]}} "live" ({{langx|grc|κτίζω}}, {{langx|la|sinō}}); then, the Germanic {{lang|mis|*himbra-}} finds an exact cognate in Slavic ''sębrъ'' "farmer" (Croatian, Serbian ''sebar'', Belarusian сябар ''sjábar'').

The name has also been related to the word ''kimme'' meaning "rim", i.e., "the people of the coast".<ref>[https://runeberg.org/nfbe/0183.html ''Nordisk familjebok''], Projekt Runeborg.</ref> Finally, since Antiquity, the name has been related to that of the [[Cimmerians]].<ref>[[Posidonius]] in Strabo, ''Geography'' 7.2.2; [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Bibl''. 5.32.4; [[Plutarch]], ''Vit.Mar.'' 11.11.</ref>

The name of the Danish region [[Himmerland]] (Old Danish ''Himbersysel'') has been proposed to be a derivative of their name.<ref>Jan Katlev, ''Politikens etymologisk ordbog'', Copenhagen 2000: 294; Kenneth W. Harl, ''Rome and the Barbarians'', The Teaching Company, 2004.</ref> According to such proposals, the word ''Cimbri'' with a ''c'' would be an older form before [[Grimm's law]] ([[Proto-Indo-European language|PIE]] ''k'' > [[Germanic Languages|Germanic]] ''h''). Alternatively, Latin ''c-'' represents an attempt to render the unfamiliar Proto-Germanic ''h'' = {{IPA|[x]}} (Latin ''h'' was {{IPA|[h]}} but was becoming silent in common speech at the time), perhaps due to Celtic-speaking interpreters (a Celtic intermediary could also explain why one proposed etymology for the Teutons, Germanic ''*Þeuðanōz'', became Latin ''Teutones'').{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

Because of the similarity of the names, the Cimbri have been at times associated with [[Cymry]], the Welsh name for themselves.<ref>C. Rawlinson, "On the Ethnography of the Cimbri", ''Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 6 (1877) 150-158.</ref> However, ''Cymry'' is derived from [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] ''*Kombrogi'' (cf. [[Allobroges]]), meaning "compatriots", and is linguistically unrelated to Cimbri.<ref>C. T. Onions and R. W. Burchfield, eds. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'', 1966, s. v. ''Cymry''; ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary''. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2002: 321.</ref>